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'Mallsai' reffers to the many bonsai trees of poor quality available for purchase at malls, superstores, and other non-bonsai-oriented shops

~*~WARNING~*~Plant Rant Ahead

It’s probably bad that I already really, really, really want to get back into my garden and have dirt shoved so deep into my nails that I can’t dig it out for weeks, no matter how hard I try. It’s still freezing cold out, and the snow is nowhere near over, but I’ve got new ideas that I’m itching to get started… particularly a few bonsai projects. I know I should be contented with the modest number of plants in my room, which more than doubles what I had last year, but they’re all so lovely, and I want to get several of them into a larger space so that they can take off! But the bonsai things keep nagging at me, because I’m really rather excited about getting started on them. Here at the uni I have a few bonsai-ready plants, including the nearly 20 ginkgos from which I need to choose the one or two that I plan to bonsai (I think I have one picked out, because he’s little, cute, and injured in a way that wouldn’t heal the best for adult growth, but then again I have several that have had lawnmower battles!), but I’m not worrying about that until spring is swinging and I start to put the others into the ground. I also have Othello, my adorable Natal plum, but he’s more than a bit wonky (yes, wonky), so I’m not sure what style to grow him in. I might just go freestyle and forget traditional bonsai rules entirely, but I’d still like him to look cute. I’m also wanting to tend to my ‘accidental’ bonsais, meaning the half-dozen or more silver and red maples I started growing years ago that did not get transferred into the yard like most of my others, but rather got stuck into various pots and flower boxes since I couldn’t bring myself to kill them. So, years of not trimming them and letting them grow in the pots has made some pseudo-bonsais that desperately need some care so that they don’t overcrowd their little space and for general aesthetic improvements.

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German Word: Plant is Pflanze!

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The BOMI department had a plant sale, so I *had* to show my support by getting a few new dearies, if only because it's hard to beat $2 for a little pot that has two adorable orange trees in it.

This is Dina; she's a succulent, and I swear she's grown at least an inch since I brought her home.

This fellow's leaves have the most amazing texture.

I'm in the process of rooting one of those brach-like things sticking out of the main body here... so soon I'll have two!

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